I'll have to look up the date and update this; I think it was
1989 that master rebuilder Dennis Scott brought the piano to his
shop in Clovis for a complete overhaul. During this time, his
wife Becky came down with cancer. She helped quite a bit in the
meticulous restoration work, but did not live to see it
completed. Her photo rests on the nearly completed Kanabe; Dennis
(right) has since remarried and lives in Washington state. The
piano was delivered back to the Wawona in 1991, possibly better
than new, and certainly good for another 80 or 100 years.